Gloria Stroock

Movies

No Easy Way
Alice Jacobson
Matthew, a concert pianist played by Alan Boyce, has kept his HIV positive status secret and refuses help from family and doctors. On the night he loses his job playing mood music in a fancy hotel, Matthew meets a streetwise panhandler Diana and the pair become wary friends.
Passions
Theona
A man with a wife and daughter also has a son with another woman. When he dies this little secret is revealed to the wife. She then sets out to make her and her son suffer by trying to throw them out of the house he bought for them but now it legally belongs to his wife. And at the same time, wanting to ensure her son's future, she sues his estate for her son's education fund. While they are butting heads, they both discover that they were both deceived by him.
Uncommon Valor
Mrs. MacGregor
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese...
The Patricia Neal Story
Self
The dramatic account of actress Patricia Neal's miraculous recovery from a near-fatal stroke in 1966 with the help of her then-husband, author Roald Dahl, and their close friend, veteran actress Mildred Dunnock.
The Competition
Mrs. Dietrich
The movie centers on a piano competition whose winner is assured of success. It is Paul's last chance to compete, but newcomer Heidi may be a better pianist. Can romance be far away? Will she take a dive despite the pressure to win from her teacher, Greta, or will she condemn Paul to obscurity?
Seed of Innocence
Sophie
A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York City.
City in Fear
Publisher's Assistant
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
Death Car on the Freeway
Dr. Rita Glass
A determined TV reporter is out to find a maniac who is methodically attacking lone women drivers on the Los Angeles Freeway by pushing them off the road with his powerful van.
Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy
Rose Kennedy
The story of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's older brother Joseph, who undertakes a dangerous mission during World War II.
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
Mrs. Blaine
A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Fun with Dick and Jane
Mildred Blanchard
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
The Day of the Locust
Alice Estee
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
The Snoop Sisters
Pinkie Allen
A spinster and her widowed sister, who are the authors of murder-mystery novels, try to track down the killer of a former movie star. This TV pilot film became a series of rotating movies the following season.